Eberhard Baring

Eberhard Baring (born December 6, 1608 in Lübeck , † March 6, 1659 in Hanover ) was a German Lutheran theologian , educator and universal scholar . He was the educator of Princes Johann Friedrich and Ernst August von Hanover, professor in Marburg and rector in Hanover.

family

Baring came from the Baring family , he was the third eldest son of the pastor of the same name (1572-1626) and his second wife Margarita (1586-1646), daughter of the Lüneburg merchant Nikolaus Meier. Baring's father worked from 1609 to 1626 as a pastor at the Katharinenkirche in Braunschweig . Baring still had eight siblings, including Nikolaus Baring a Lutheran preacher .

Baring married Elisabeth von Bestebostel (1615–1680) in Hanover in 1643, daughter of the patrician and captain of the upper street district Laurentius von Bestebostel. The couple had five children.

Live and act

School time and studies

Baring attended the Latin school in Lüneburg from 1617 and the Katharineum in Braunschweig from 1618 . Already at the age of 13 he was a student of the Prima and already showed an unusual talent for the classical and oriental languages such as Hebrew , Arabic and Syriac . At the age of 16 he spoke Greek so well that he temporarily served as an interpreter for the Patriarch of Alexandria , Metrophones Critopulos .

Baring studied at the University of Leipzig from 1624 after the first clergyman in Dresden , Doctor Polykarp Leyser , had considered him to be extraordinarily worthy due to the grant of the Gräflich-Saldernschen scholarship. In Leipzig , however, it cannot be proven in the matriculations. As a result of the Thirty Years' War , he moved to the University of Helmstedt in 1625 . He first studied theology and then turned to church and secular history. In Helmstedt he was expelled by the Danish War , but returned in 1629 as a lecturer in Hebrew. In the same year he switched to the University of Marburg as a lecturer in Greek and logic, but returned to Helmstedt in 1630.

War experiences

In 1630, Baring was recruited as a mounted hunter by imperial troops under the leadership of General Holck . In the troubled times of the Thirty Years' War, which began in 1618, this was not an uncommon means of financing a degree. He took part in the advance of the imperial army led by Pappenheim under the command of Tilly against the Swedish army advancing from Pomerania and in the fight against Magdeburg .

Baring was badly wounded in the arm near Egeln at the end of 1630 and left the army. He went back to Braunschweig, where he devoted himself to private studies and taught languages ​​and mathematics to members of wealthy families . For example, he instructed the learned Brunswick city counsel Johann Camman in Arabic. In 1632 he began working in Braunschweig as secretary and court master for the Swedish ambassador Jacob Steinberg. He was responsible for his Latin correspondence and taught Steinberg's son.

On June 29, 1633 Baring was recruited as a soldier . On the side of the Swedes , he joined the Palatine-Birkenfeld Army under Bernhard von Weimar's command, became General- Provisioner - Lieutenant , later General Quartermaster and finally an engineer for the Swedish troops. After the battle of Nördlingen , which was costly for the Swedish Protestant troops on September 6th and 7th, 1634, as a result of which the Palatinate-Birkenfeld army was broken up and Alsace fell to France , he ended his military career.

further activities

Baring returned to Marburg for his private studies, where he turned down the application for a professorship in Greek language and history because of religious concerns and then went to Hildesheim. There he received in 1636 at the same time offers to move to Hanover as vice-principal at the grammar school in Lemgo or as teacher of the two Guelph princes Johann Friedrich (1625–1679) and Ernst August (1629–1698). He followed the latter call from Duke Georg zu Braunschweig-Lüneburg and taught the two children for six years. When the Duke died in 1641, he gave a funeral speech.

On December 6th, 1641 - after his brother Nikolaus also moved to Hanover in the same year - Baring became vice rector of the High Ratsschule in Hanover, where he was appointed rector on June 14th, 1643 at the age of 35. In 1649, at the age of only 41, he resigned his offices due to his poor health and lived as a private scholar until his death in 1659 .

Works

Baring left behind numerous handwritten works that document his diverse interests in the fields of languages, history , geography and mathematics. Only a small number of his works were printed.

Baring donated two valuable oriental books to Helmstedt University , one of which contained Turkish prayers. Both writings were among the treasures of the German collections, which were brought to Paris in 1806 on the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte , but were brought back to Wolfenbüttel in 1815 after the final defeat of the French army .

literature

• Adolf Baring : The Baring family, in particular the Hanoverian line, with 22 illustrations and a coat of arms in: German Roland Book for Gender Studies , published by the "Roland" Association for the Promotion of Stamm-, Wappen- und Siegelkunde EV, 1st volume, Dresden 1918, P. 7ff.
• Johann Anton Strubberg : Preface. In: M. David Meiers , Vormahls famous theologi, and preacher at the St. Georgen and Jacobi churches in Hanover, Kurtzgefaste message from the Christian Reformation in churches and schools of the old town Hanover. How such the 14th day of Sept. 1533. there ... come about (...). And with a preface introducing a small outline of the local school history. Hannover 1731, pp. 1–46, here pp. 34–39.
• Daniel Eberhard Baring : Eberhard Baring. In: ders .: Addendum to the Hanover Church and School Historia as explained with a few documents and a preface From famous memorials, especially those that are in and around Hanover, accompanied in two parts. Hannover 1748, pp. 65-73.
• Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Baring (Eberhard) . In: ders .: The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and are still alive since the Reformation in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover, compiled from the most credible writers. 2 vol., Bremen 1823, vol. 1, pp. 98-100.
• Eberhard Baring (biographical sketch). In: Archives of the historical association for Lower Saxony. Born in 1848. Hahn, Hannover 1850, pp. 178–183.
• Carl Ludwig Grotefend :  Baring, Eberhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 66.
• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon . 8th to 18th centuries , Braunschweig 2006, pp. 66f., ISBN 3937664467
• Klaus Mlynek : Article Baring, (2) Eberhard . In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 39.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 8th to 18th centuries , Braunschweig 2006, p. 66.
2. ^ Archives of the historical association for Lower Saxony, year 1848 , Hanover 1850, p. 178ff.